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Title:Globalization and the Politics of Subsidies
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Author(s):AYDIN, UmutDate:2008Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2008/11Abstract:State subsidies to attract investment have proliferated since the 1980s, yet we know little about the factors that influence governments’ subsidy policies. In this paper, I propose that in making subsidy policies, governments ...

Title:Group formation, in-group bias and the cost of cheating
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Author(s):MICHAELI, MotiDate:2015Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2015/04Abstract:Group formation and in-group bias -- preferential treatment for insiders -- are widely observed social phenomena. This paper demonstrates how they arise naturally when people incur a psychological cost as the result of ...